"National Review has been hearing from its readers ever since Bill Buckley founded the magazine in 1955 - but not all of this correspondence was formal "Letters to the Editor." After a decade, the editors decided that some of the more unusual communications deserved a wider audience than just the National Review staff, and thus began the "Notes & Asides" column, in which Buckley personally responded to the most notable and outrageous letters." "The selections in this book, culled from four decades of "Notes & Asides," paint a sometimes hilarious, sometimes sobering picture of the friends and opponents of National Review. Included are uproarious exchanges with ordinary readers and illuminating letters from such figures as Ronald Reagan, Eric Sevareid, Richard Nixon, A. M. Rosenthal, Auberon Waugh, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charlton Heston, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr." "With additional commentary by Buckley, Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription tells an unofficial and alternate history of the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century. And whether he's being criticized about his hair and posture or being indicted for war crimes by a protest group, Buckley delights, always keeping the last word for himself.

"--BOOK JACKET.